Iain Duncan Smith: 'No one will lose out' in benefit reform

The architect of the reforms, Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith
has insisted nobody will be worse off following the government's welfare
reforms.

12:24PM GMT 17 Feb 2011

Iain Duncan Smith claims it is a simplification of system and will lift a million people out of poverty.

"Nobody will be worse off as we make these changes to the universal credit, absoluely not," said Duncan Smith.

The Welfare Reform Bill will replace the complex array of benefits with a single Universal Credit, create a Work Programme to help the long-term unemployed into jobs and introduce incentives and sanctions to ensure that work always pays.